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Volunteers show a generous face - The National Newspaper: "When Lola Lopez founded Aid in Motion, a Dubai-based NGO, last year to collect and donate clothes to poor rural communities in Kenya, Myanmar and Pakistan, she needed help. She turned to Facebook, where she created a group called Volunteer in Dubai, hoping to get a handful of interested people. Before she knew it, 3,000 volunteers had joined in the first month, and Ms Lopez collected 100,000kg of clothes for her organisation"

(March 9, 2009) This week AFP featured social networking/web 2.0 tools in its newsletter, eWire Skill Builder. Here is our full coverage of the topic. AFP members receive eWire weekly in their email inbox. Not a member of AFP? Join today!"

(March 9, 2009) Think you can simply add a page to Facebook and like a spark watch it build into a roaring fire of support? Think again. But Jono Smith, vice president of Network for Good, says a lot of good can come to those who follow a"

There was a time - scarcely 20 years ago - when telling someone you were part of a 'virtual' organization, run entirely on something called 'the Internet,' would have caused them to stare vacantly at you while awaiting further explanation.

Today, for-profit and nonprofit institutions alike harvest the power of online communications and exposure for their own purposes, whether it's for selling widgets or promoting research into medical science. Still, most of these also operate traditionally in buildings with offices, cubicles, equipment, and rental overhead."

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